the harbour, several irregular little promontories project into 
the water and occupy much valuable space. The total area, 
in fact, of water more than four fathoms in depth does not 
exceed one-half a square mile. The entrance is not quite a 
mile wide, and is guarded by a long rock island, called 
Pajaros, lying exactly in front of and outside it, which makes 
the harbour doubly secure. The main channel runs to the 
left of the rock. On entering, its course is at first north-east 
as it passes the rock, and then north-west as it enters the | 
harbour. To the right, another passage leads to a larger, : 
though shallower, basin, into which a small river discharges 
its débris. The depth of the channel is. five fathoms until | 
the rock islands within the harbour are reached, when it 's | 
reduced to four and three. Three fathoms can be obtained in | 
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the centre of the inner harbour between the rock islands and 
the town; but it is only close to the former that four fathoms 
can be found. . 
The accompanying diagram of the three harbours, San 
Francisco, San Diego, and Guaymas, all drawn to the same 
scale, shows at a glance the relative capacity of each. There — : 
is no question as to the value.of San Diego harbour. If is 
admirably sheltered, will admit vessels drawing 223 feet of 
water, is at least four times as large as Guaymas, and is, next 
to San Francisco; the best harbour on the coast of California. 
It is, moreover, almost 300 miles nearer to New York than 
San Francisco, either by the Omaha line or that of the 35th 
parallel, and can be easily reached from the latter trunk line by — 
a branch 211 miles long, which would traverse the most — 
fertile portion of Southern California. 
The results I arrived at from my reconnoissance through 
Sonora to Guaymas do not confirm the glowing accounts 
which have been circulated relative to the harbour of the | 
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